Python script to write all tweets into a single file

WritingTweets.py

#This is to  take only tweets from a file and put them in another file
import sys
tweetsFile=open(sys.argv[1],'r')#Having the tweets
newFile=open(sys.argv[2],'w')#With only tweets, no user and time data
import itertools
for line1,line2,line3 in itertools.izip_longest(*[tweetsFile]*3):
     line3=line3.split('\t') #Split on the basis of tab as we only need the right side , the tweet     
     newFile.write(line3[1]+"\n")